Amy Gledhill

Russell Howard’s Five Brilliant Things

Avalon

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.5 • 566 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week we have the winner of the 2024 Edinburgh Best Show! One of Britain’s fastest rising comics is with us; it’s the fabulous Amy Gledhill and this is an absolute banger of an episode. Hull’s most exciting product since the White Phone Box explains why cheap white bread is better than all your fancy Italian nonsense, how working in a dungeon gave her existential dread and why she enjoys spending her free time singing about tapeworms and listening to hairdryers. 🎫 Amy is putting the finishing touches to her brand new tour ‘Thanks for Having Me’. Tickets are about to go on sale, and may well even be there by the time you read this. Check and re-check https://amygledhill.co.uk/live-dates to find out the dates and get the tickets. 🎫 📻 Also get into those podcasts - Amy is on Northern News with Ian Smith, and on Single Ladies in your Area with Harriet - get either of them by searching for them on your podcast app. Both are freely available with many episodes to catch up on. What a treat! 📻 🎟️ YOU WANT MORE LIVE COMEDY? Russell’s brand new tour show ‘Don’t Tell The Algorithm’ is starting its grand journey across the UK: Don’t miss this fantastic show of all brand-new material. Find out more at https://www.russell-howard.co.uk 🎟️ Thanks for being here, thanks for being you, but now it’s time for you to leave. Bye! Producer: Dan Atkinson Line Producer: Daisy Knight Exec Producer: James Taylor Composer: Fat Lady Music Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and my friends, welcome to Five Brilliant Things, where I sit down with fascinating people to talk about the things they love.
0:13.8	My guest today is a very funny comedian who's gone from winning the best show in Edinburgh to being one of the stars of Last One Laughing.
0:21.6	It's Amy Gledhill and here are our five brilliant things.
0:34.7	Amy.
0:35.8	Hello.
0:36.6	Nice to meet you.
0:37.3	Nice to meet you. And you've escaped a blaze to get here. I have, yeah. It's been a real journey. You feel like Indiana Jones. Yeah. And you've come from Crouch End. You avoided a fire. Yeah. And that's why you were slightly late. No judgment. Oh gosh. But nice to have a backstory because you said I was late because there was a fire.
0:55.9	And I googled to see, well, not if you were telling the truth.
1:01.7	There was a big fire and there's a huge blaze.
1:05.1	And it says a lot about me that I'm like, oh, okay.
1:08.1	Yeah, let's see their story checks out.
1:10.2	Yeah, I don't know why I did that.
1:11.8	No, we've just met, I get it.
1:13.5	You need to suss me out.
1:14.8	I'm clearly untrustworthy.
1:16.4	Not the slightest, but it's nice to meet you.
1:18.8	I've heard a lot about you, and I'm very excited about this.
1:22.2	What is your first brilliant thing?
1:23.9	My first brilliant thing is my favourite band. Okay. System of a Down.
1:28.6	Right.
1:29.1	System of a Down.
1:30.1	I'm not familiar with their work.
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